Big-Red

Cut it out:

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What the fuck, when can we break out the guillotines?

"A group of water oligarchs in California have engineered a disastrous deregulation and privatization scheme. And they've pulled in hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars without any real public outrage. The amount of power and control they wield over California's most precious resource, water, should shock and frighten us -- and it would, if more people were aware of it. But here is the scary thing: They are plotting to gain an even larger share of California's increasingly-scarce, over-tapped water supply, which will surely lead to shortages, higher prices and untold destruction to California's environment."

HOORAY CAPITALISM

Old, but still relevant. John Dolan gets to the heart of the matter as always; basically, why the fuck is any drug illegal, and why should anyone be submitted to torture in an American prison for choosing to put their favorite fucking drug in their bodies? There is no good goddamn reason, and we know it, but do nothing about it.

"One of the great ironies of the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago is that the East German protest leaders who led the uprising did not want unification with West Germany.

It's important on this anniversary to distinguish between two entirely different events: first, the fall of the Berlin Wall, on November 9, 1989; and then German unification, on October 3, 1990. Americans often conflate the two into one process. But for Germans and those who were there, it's a much more complicated story. The fall of the Berlin Wall became a poisoned memory for a certain set of Easterners, thanks to the events that followed that event."

Read this

Thor is not impressed by your "Christianity".

Oh good, these poor ceo's could probably use some cash in these difficult times.